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detra83
detra83

Reputation: 739

iPhone App Store - how to determine the final size of the app when uploading

To clarify, I will be uploading new app to the App Store and I want to determine what the final size for the end user will be. Currently, unzipped build file is 22MB and little over 18MB if I zip it (as per instructions for uploading new apps). My question therefore is which file size will be shown in the store? Do users download zipped archive or unzipped app file?

Thank you for your responses.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 608

Answers (3)

Matteo Alessani
Matteo Alessani

Reputation: 10412

You can take a look at My answer... The compressed size is wrong: Did Apple change their app archiving method?

Upvotes: 0

Making an iPhone App
Making an iPhone App

Reputation: 1

That's not always completely correct. My zip was 19.9mb when I launched but the store read it as 20.1mb and thus it didn't qualify for anything but wifi downloading.

Try to stay away from pushing the 20mb limit...

Upvotes: 0

FreeAsInBeer
FreeAsInBeer

Reputation: 12979

Roger's response doesn't take into account the additional DRM that Apple adds to your applications. This will generally add at least 1 MB to the final size, and this does affect whether or not it can be downloaded over 3G.

Upvotes: 3

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